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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Chall's Stage 3
MSLE
Raw score
2. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Middle English
Towre
Vowel
Reliability
3. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Stanine Scores
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Orthography
Adolf Kusmaul
4. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Standard deviation
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
CTOPP
Texas Education Code 28.06
5. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Letter naming Chart
IMSLEC
Universal Screening
MSL
6. Academic Language Therapy Association
Expressive language
Matthew Effect
ALTA
SBOE
7. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
James Hinshelwood
Analytic
Syllable
Sight Words
8. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
WIATII
Components of Reading Instruction
Raw score
SBOE
9. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Derived Score
Expressive language
Battery
Standardized test
10. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Mastery level
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Sight Words
Multisensory
11. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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12. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
Suffix
Open Syllable
Anna Gillingham
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
13. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Expressive language
VAKT
Raw score
Syntax
14. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Standardized test
Closed Syllable
Grapheme
VC
15. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Tactile
Norm-Referenced Test
Cognition
Keith Stanovich
16. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Oral Language
Syllable Instruction
Battery
17. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Texas Education Code 28.06
Vowel
Kinesthetic
Visual Learners
18. Closed syllable
Accommodation
Adolf Kusmaul
VC
Mastery level
19. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Keith Stanovich
Standard Scores
Standardized test
Open Syllable
20. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Whole Language
Phonological Awareness
Analytic
IEP
21. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
VV
Universal Screening
Phonemic Awareness
Base Word
22. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
RTI
Stanine Scores
Standard Scores
Adolf Kusmaul
23. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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24. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
GORT
Synthetic Instruction
Norm-referenced tests
Open Syllable
25. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Great Vowel Shift
Phonology
Grade equivalents
Orthography
26. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Derived Score
Universal Screening
Frank Smith
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
27. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
Oral Language
IDEA
Syllable Instruction
Macron
28. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Adolf Kusmaul
V >
VC
29. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
Phonemic Awareness
Samuel T. Orton
Digraph
VC
30. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Percentile/ percentile rank
Analytic
The Norman Conquest
Auditory Processing
31. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Battery
Grapheme
Modern English
Derivative
32. Feeling through fingertips
Mastery level
Attention
Matthew Effect
Tactile
33. Multisensory Structured Language
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
VAKT
Diagnostic Teaching
MSL
34. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Simultaneous teaching
Reading Comprehension Support
Mathew Effect
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
35. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Semantics
Vowel Digraph
Letter naming Chart
Keith Stanovich
36. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Standard deviation
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Profile
Greek layer of language
37. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Progress Monitoring
Texas Education Code 38.003
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
38. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Curriculum referenced tests
Impulsivity
Joe Torgesen
GORT
39. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Open Syllable
Composite Score
Age equivalent
Cedilla
40. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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41. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Orthography
Auditory Learners
Chall's Stage 5
Frank Smith
42. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Mathew Effect
Chall's Stage 2
SBOE
Oral Language
43. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Achievement test
Comprehension
Raw score
Pre-English
44. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
IMSLEC
Multisensory
Linguistic Method
Vowel Digraph
45. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Attention
Percentile
Accuracy
Tilde
46. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.
Pre-English
Consonant
Linguistic Method
Macron
47. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Linguistic Method
Phonemic/ decodable words
Stanine Scores
Reliability
48. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
V-e
Oral Language
WRAT
Analytic
49. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Composite Score
Towre
VV
Anna Gillingham
50. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Ability
Phoneme